1994: Homelands

Reading: John Stone

Date

Apr 6th, 1994

Participants

John Stone

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

54:07

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V501

In this audiovisual recording from April 6, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” John Stone discusses his process of becoming a writer and reads a selection of his poems. Stone reads “Coming Home,” “Talking to the Family,” “To a Fourteen Year Old Girl in Labor and Delivery,” “Blueberry Muffins,” “Losing Your Voice in Summer,” “Looking Down into a Ditch,” “Double Header,” “Rosemary,” “Three for the Mona Lisa,” “In All This Rain,” “Ellijay,” excerpts from an early version of “Seeing in the Dark,” “Building the Steps,” and “Poem on an Accidental Xerox of Her Hand.”

Introduced by Jim Brosseau.

Reading: Jervey Tervalon

Date

Apr 6th, 1994

Participants

Jervey Tervalon

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

59:23

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V502

In this audiovisual recording from April 6, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” Jervey Tervalon reads from Living for the City. Tervalon also responds to audience questions about his characters' redemption, his experience growing up in South Central, teaching high school English, his thoughts on the complexity of gang violence, corruption of law enforcement and court systems, how he started writing, and his response to gun violence and drug crimes.

Introduced by Hardy A. Robinson III.

Panel

Date

Apr 7th, 1994

Participants

James Whitehead

Jervey Tervalon

John Stone

Sandra Benitez

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

55:07

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V503

This audiovisual recording from April 7, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands” features James Whitehead, Jervey Tervalon, John Stone, and Sandra Benitez forming the noon panel. The panelists discuss their notions of homeland, the act of writing, writing in other voices, and writing from experience.

Moderator: Gail Steward Hand.

Reading: James Whitehead

Date

Apr 7th, 1994

Participants

James Whitehead

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

52:25

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V504

In this audiovisual recording from April 7, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” James Whitehead reads a selection of his poems. Whitehead reads “A Local Man Estimates What He Did For His Brother Who Became a Poet and What His Brother Did For Him,” “His Slightly Longer Story Sont,” “The Traveling Picker's Prayer and Dream,” “A Natural Theology,” “For President Jimmy Carter on His Homecoming,” “Below is What he Said that Troubles Me,” “Coldstream Taggart, the College Traveler, Introduces His Country Doctor Friend,” “Coldstream, the College Traveler, Tells of Meeting Toulouse Bergeron, Doctor Annie's Rich and Estranged Husband,” “Colstream Taggart—the College Textbook Salesman—Proposes to His Longtime Friend Doctor Annie While Listening to Music,” “That Mobile Lawyer's Life of Desire,” “We're Listening to the Features Editor,” “With Tom Royals I Hope to Visit Gay Ward Atwood's Grave in Smith County, Mississippi, Sometime This Summer,” “Dentistry,” “He's Living through the Subject of Abortion,” and “A Poem for my Humerus.”

Introduced by John Little.

Reading: Sandra Benitez

Date

Apr 7th, 1994

Participants

Sandra Benitez

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

51:35

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V505

In this audiovisual recording from April 7, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” Sandra Benitez discusses her experience as a writer and reads from A Place Where the Sea Remembers.

Introduced by Elizabeth Hampsten.

Panel

Date

Apr 8th, 1994

Participants

Adrian Louis

Jonis Agee

Larry Watson

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

55:38

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V506

This audiovisual recording from April 9, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands” features James Whitehead, Larry Watson, and Jonis Agee forming the noon panel. The panelists discuss landscape, nature, sense of identity and place, the importance of literacy, accuracy and authenticity in writing, and commitment to literature.

Moderator: Robert Lewis.

Reading: Adrian Louis

Date

Apr 8th, 1994

Participants

Adrian Louis

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

48:04

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V507

In this audiovisual recording from April 8, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” Adrian Louis reads a selection of his poems. Louis reads “Fever Journal,” “A Prayer for the Lost,” “Crow Song,” “Full Blood Girl on a Blue Horse,” “A Brand New Snag,” “Rhetorical Judea,” “How Verdell and Dr. Zhivago Disassemble the Soviet Union,” “Verdell's Morning Constitution,” “Sifting the Ashes of Greek Fire,” “Indian Giver,” “Some of What We Have Forgotten,” and “Ancestor Prayer.”

Reading: Jonis Agee

Date

Apr 8th, 1994

Participants

Jonis Agee

Digitization Status

permissions cleared, digitization planned

Run time

40:18

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V508

In this audiovisual recording from April 8, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” Jonis Agee reads a selection of her fiction. Agee reads the short story “I Can't Stop Loving You” and excerpts from Sweet Eyes, Strange Angels, and the then-unpublished South of Resurrection.

Introduced by Libby Rankin.

Panel

Date

Apr 9th, 1994

Participants

James Whitehead

Jonis Agee

Larry Watson

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

55:38

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V509

This audiovisual recording from April 9, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands” features James Whitehead, Larry Watson, and Jonis Agee forming the noon panel. The panelists discuss landscape, nature, sense of identity and place, the importance of literacy, accuracy and authenticity in writing, and commitment to literature.

Moderator: Robert Lewis.

Reading: Larry Watson

Date

Apr 9th, 1994

Participants

Larry Watson

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

60:34

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V510

In this audiovisual recording from April 9, 1994 as part of the 25th annual UND Writing Conference: “Homelands,” Larry Watson reads a selection of his work. Watson reads the poems “Cheap Shoes,” “The Heron's Flight,” “October,” “The Population of North Dakota,” “Shoveling Snow,” “Sleeping Together, or an Argument For Saving Yourselves For Marriage,” “The Laundromat,” “Out of Body Experience,” and “Everything That is Wrong With America” and from Montana 1948. After Watson's reading, John Little presents Watson with the Maxwell Anderson Alumni Award and discusses his pleasure at having Watson and other alumni return to the UND Writers Conference, this being one of his reasons for founding the conference.